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Scottish Borders Council Library & Information Services
PLIM project – World War 1
“Keep the Home Fires Burning - the Scottish Borders’ Stories”
Background
PLIM funding secured in 2013-14 for “Scottish Borders Newspapers of the Great War” project to digitise local newspapers from 1914-18
Project aim : To improve access to WW1 material through digitisation and create resources for use in schools and for research
Further work during 2014-15 to make the digitised images searchable
Aim: To take the Great War out to schools and give primary school children a better understanding of the impact that World War 1 had on the Scottish Borders, through research, drama, song and dance
Objectives:• Effectively utilise and promote the use of library
resources and raise awareness amongst local school children on how to use them for educational purposes
• Improve children’s information literacy skills• Produce a play for school children based on the
information research carried out by the pupils
Project aims and objectives
• Topical subject for schools• Helps to address a lack of printed resources in schools project
collections – insufficient resources to meet demand for materials• Cross curricular, meets the principles of Curriculum for Excellence
and gives pupils new skills in art, drama, creative writing and research and ICT - links to YMI and Creative Learning
• Builds on the “Scottish Borders Newspapers of the Great War Scottish project”
• Helps to address findings from the Reader Development Network reading audit
• Develops information literacy skills• Develops opportunities for partnership with creative practitioners-
potential to develop other strands with cultural/heritage partners • Supports SOA N04- “Our young people are successful learners,
confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens” and SOA N13 “We take pride in a strong, fair and inclusive national identity”
Why ?
PLIF Grant £8,820 Staffing costs £1,220Resource costs £3,000Flash drives £ 500Fee for production (as per guidance from Federation of Scottish Theatres) £4,000Materials – props and costumes £ 100
Library Services and Arts Development Team £2,450Materials and resources contribution £1,050Youth Music Instructor assistance (in kind YMI) £ 615Creative Learning Assistant support ( in kind YMI) £ 785
TOTAL £11,270
Budget
What?
• Produce 10 resource boxes to allow selected classes to research the impact of WW1 on their local area including :– flash drive of digitised
newspaper resources, links to online resources and items from the local collection
– information on how to research WW1 in relation to the local area
– pre-determined research paths for pupils to follow regarding an individual or an aspect of WW1 life
– Selection of junior fiction and non fiction titles relating to WW1
• Pilot the project in one primary school with an upper level primary class- January 2015
• Produce a play based on Local Studies resources, containing 3 -4 songs – play will draw from newspapers, items from local studies collection to include local history of WW1
• Provide research skills workshop at local library
• Project evaluation and roll out to other schools.
What?
“Nightshirts, dayshirts, cardigans and socks,Gloves and mufflers, they all go in the box.Jams and sweeties, Oxo cubes and buns-
We’re the women behind the men behind the guns”
“We’re the women behind the men behind the guns”- words by John Nicol, 2014 Keep The Home Fires Burning - Scene 2 “Knitting for Victory”
The Patriotic Girls’ Club, Hawick,1917 from “Hawick
at War, 1914-18”
• Library & Information Services Communities Team
• Library & Information Services Local Studies staff
• Arts Development -
Creative Learning Team • Heritage Hub – Archive
and Family History Centre
• Museums and Galleries Service
Who?
Auxiliary post women delivering letters in Hawick, 1915
For further details….
Margaret Menzies [email protected]
Gillian Swales [email protected]
SBC Library and Information ServicesLibrary Headquarters, St Mary’s Mill, Selkirk
01750-726400
[email protected] www.scotborders.gov.uk/libraries